Plain Thoughts on Secret Societiesorder of the trustees of the Conference Printing Establishment of the United Brethren of Christ, Vonnieda and Kumler, Agents, 1855 - 222 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 179 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 217 - Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion : for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Page 24 - For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 217 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God : and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 46 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 180 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united!
Page 170 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him: and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 221 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, 0 Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, 0 Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Page 177 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 74 - AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.